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Food-related events in the coming weeks will offer the home cook plenty of inspiration in the kitchen. Let's get right to the daily dish:

Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival about to blossom again

Epcot is back in full bloom as of Wednesday, when the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival returns.

Making SeaWorld's Mako Into a shark-smooth roller coaster

SeaWorld Orlando introduced the public to its ride vehicle for its under-construction Mako roller coaster last week. Picture a blue, sharp-nosed, beady-eyed water creature with a SeaWorld logo on its snout. It looks very aerodynamic, which leads to my leftover tidbits about the ride.

Restaurants

Review: Wahlburgers in downtown Orlando

The paparazzi are gone, the celeb quotient has diminished somewhat and Wahlburgers is down to business with a fervor.

Foodie Awards

Readers pick their favorite Orlando restaurants

Music

Vine stars Jack & Jack to play House of Blues Orlando

With more than 23 million followers online, rap duo Jack & Jack have a digital army of supporters backing their music.

Central Florida Fair expands focus on live music

Get ready to grab a sugar-encrusted funnel cake, hop on the Ferris wheel and try your best to win that oversize teddy bear for your sweetheart.

War at Orlando Blues-BQ

WHAT: As election season wears on and controversy after controversy seems to place everyone on one side of some fence or another, don't you find yourself asking more and more War's philosophical query, "Why can't we be friends?"

Concerts this weekend

Check our complete list of concert events around Central Florida.

Movies

Oscar parties at Enzian, Cinematique

Every year Hollywood gets together in their most expensive, Marie Antionette-ish garments to pat themselves on the back for being superfamous and making tons of money, and then cap it all off by giving the awards to the movies no one saw. And for some reason this can be really fun to watch, especially in a crowd.

Finally, another decent sports movie--about ski jump?

Underdog sports movies like "Invincible" or "Miracle" almost never get points for originality. Person (or team) wants to succeed, everyone says person won’t, person doesn’t give up, person eventually has varying degree of victory. That’s the plotline, and it’s borderline pointless to complain about the formula.

'Triple 9' review: Dirty cops plus heist equals all-too-familiar tale

A murky paradox, "Triple 9" takes turns being difficult to track or settling for obvious explication of what the audience already knows.

'Son of Saul' is a terrifying glimpse inside Auschwitz-Birkenau

With the Oscars just a few weeks away, it may be time to catch up with "Son of Saul." One of the favorites to take the foreign language film award, it is a remarkable piece of cinema that demands to be seen whether it wins or not.

Arts & Culture

Jekyll, Gatsby star in Orlando Shakespeare Theater 2016-17 season

Adaptations of "The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde" and "The Great Gatsby" will be staged by Orlando Shakespeare Theater in its 2016-17 season, along with the great American musical "West Side Story."

Josh Groban talks Broadway before Orlando concert of showtunes

Josh Groban has a date with a Central Floridian this fall: In September, he'll star with Denee Benton of Winter Park in the Broadway musical "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812."

Force awakens local artist Doug Rhodehamel

May the Force be with Doug Rhodehamel.

Your art-to-do list

There's a variety of happenings this week: museum lectures, outdoor festivals, international exhibitions and artsy fundraisers. Some are in/around Orlando, others a short drive. One must-see event is 200-plus miles away — in Miami. Even if you can't get there this week you have until May 15, so put it on your art to-do list now.